[Talk-ca] bzip/gzip compression of canvec.osm files instead of .zip

[Sam Vekemans]

Hi,
JohnSmith (on the #osm-ca IRC chat) says that using gzip[1] or bzip[2]
 instead of the .zip file which is currently being used, would allow
for JOSM to open up the file directly (without needing to unzip it),
since it is only 1 file, and there is no need to recurse  the
directories.

I haven't actually tried it, but apparently it works :)

Is there a way to compress your created .osm files to eithor .gzip or bzip?

Cheers,
Sam

[1] http://www.gzip.org/
[2] http://www.bzip.org/

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